Book
The Barama River Caribs of British Guiana
The Museum • 14 (2) • Published In 1936 • Pages: xiv, 274 , 30 plates
By: Gillin, John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph is based upon seven months of field research, concentrated for the most part on a small and recently formed settlement of Carib. The author concerns himself mainly with a detailed analysis of the elements of the social organization and personality factors which tend toward the integration or disruption of this settlement. Other cultural aspects are treated topically. A detailed section on anthropometry, including comparative data on the Arawak as well as other Carib groups, completes the study. There is little information on Carib history or spatial distribution.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethos
- Community structure
- Household
- Extended families
- Community heads
- Congregations
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Kinship terminology
- Mythology
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Barama River Carib
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Richard P. Schaedel ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1932-1933
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1936
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Guyana
- NotesAdditional notes
- John Gillin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-274)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Carib Indians/Indians of South America--Guyana